Last week, I opened my Facebook page to an article which explained how the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), an anti-public education think tank nestled
Category: Cashing in on ed reform
Making Sense of the Student Debt Crisis: Education Reform is Robbing Us Blind and Helping No One
It’s not just the tech industries, the testing and text book industries and the data crunchers and education reform managers and cheerleaders and edu-investors
Education Reform and Racism: Why Aren’t We Talking About This?
Original Title: Why Aren’t We Talking About This? Reposted with permission from Save Maine Schools – Helping You Navigate Next-Gen Ed Reform. Everyone in the nation
Betsy DeVos’ Education Tax Credits Will Take Money Away from the States
This article was originally posted on The Progressive and titled: Four Things Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Want You to Know about Education Tax Credits Secretary of
Pay for Success – Also Known as Social Impact Bonds, Senator Orrin Hatch & the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Back in the early 2000’s Sun Microsystems’ Scott McNealy described the pending merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq as “the sound of two garbage trucks colliding”. Whenever I read through
ELO’s: How Community-Based Learning Advances the Cyber Education Agenda, Part 1
Editor’s note: Post republished with permission from Wrench in the Gears. ELOs: How Community-Based Learning Advances the Cyber Education Agenda ELO’s are learning experiences that by
“Learning is Earning” the Rand Corporation way with digital badges and Edublocks
All of the elements are in place: There’s piece work employment without financial security or due process. The opportunity for corporations to pay employees in script
The Doublespeak of Ed Reform Regarding Charter Schools
Originally published in The Huffington Post, by co-editor Sue Peters I can’t help but wonder if it isn’t an intentional Catch 22 that some people
Following the charter school cash in the Washington State Primary: The latest money scheme
UPDATE: Two mistakes have been corrected from the original post. Voters for Washington Children spent $15,000 in digital ads AGAINST Luis Moscoso in the District
This Goes Under “Cashing In On Ed Reform”: Online charter school K12 Inc.
K12 Online Learning is in Washington State using tax dollars to cash in on the online charter school industry. This was first published on the Seattle Education
Beware of “the 74” and Campbell Brown
I wrote an article recently about a post in “the 74” on their preponderance of interest in charter schools in Washington State. With sponsors such as the Waltons
